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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:44 am    Post subject: scsi hosts and usb mass storage device Reply with quote

I am having an issue with the scsi system and how it communicates with usb. I am using the 2.6.6 kernel and running pure udev. The problem is that every time I plug in a usb mass storage device, a new scsi host is created. I had this problem in sysfs and thought maybe it was just a race condition, so I went ahead and switched over to udev. I am getting better results in that at least each time it is plugged in it creates the device data in /sys and once it is unplugged all that is removed. However it is still assigning these scsi hosts incrementally every time I replug it in. Here is a scenario of what's going on:

I plug a mass storage device in and here is an excerpt from syslog
Code:
Jun  9 16:25:44 odin scsi.agent[31675]: disk at /devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host4/4:0:0:0


I unplug the device without ever having mounted it and everything seems to be fine; /sys/devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/ is now empty as it should be.

I now plug the device back in and get this is syslog
Code:
Jun  9 16:47:28 odin scsi.agent[31877]: disk at /devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host5/5:0:0:0


Now, that all said ... Why is it creating host5 instead of reusing the old host4 that had been unregistered through hotplug? I have been posting in the kernel & hardware forum but thus far not gettiing anything of value; I'm beginning to believe this is a sparc spceific issue. :? My posts in the kernel & hardware forum are at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1226298#1226298
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see the same behavior on my system.

However, no matter how many times I plug it in, it always appears under the same device in /dev.

That is, no matter if I see
/devices/pci...host5/5:0.0.0

or

/devices/pci...host15/5:0.0.0

The new usb drive always appears at the next available /dev/sd[a-z] entry.

So, while this is a bit confusing, unless it's not binding to the proper major/minor node number it really isn't an issue.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This, people, is why we use udev.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, udev is assigning it to the proper link in /dev which is good :) and of course I will eventually write a udev rule for my 2 mass storage devices ... but this raises the question of when will I discover the maximum number of scsi hosts in linux? I do not have this problem on my celeron machine running debian using a 2.4.22 kernel and devfs .... in that case everytime the mass storage device is disconnected, it is removed from /dev/scsi and the next time one is plugged in, it is given the previous host number ... is that not how it should be? is this a problem with the scsi driver?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no. it's just a difference between udev and devfs.

You're seeing expected behavior.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

my problem has nothing to do with udev... udev is working perfectly fine ... the problem is with the scsi driver .... eventually if I don't reboot somewhere along the way I will reach an upper limit on the number of scsi hosts that are being assigned... the real question is: why doesn't the scsi driver know that the device had been disconnected so it can reuse that old host number? this is not normal behavior; i even get that much from the guys in the kernel & hardware forum (refer to the link above) ... it's just no one in there had anything to fix the problem (i think it's sparc specific hence the reason why I am posting in here)
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No no, this is expected behaviour, and it's one of the reasons udev is so necessary. The whole static major/minor thing has to go, and that requires something like udev.
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